char
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, char sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1arch
- One letter away
- 8chap, chat
What it means
- nouna charred substance
- nouna human female employed to do housework
- nounany of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ch aa1 r — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
65 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- afar
- ajar
- are
- bar
- bazaar
- bizarre
- boxcar
- car
- caviar
- cigar
- crowbar
- czar
- far
- guitar
- jaguar
- jar
- mar
- par
- radar
- registrar
- repertoire
- reservoir
- scar
- seminar
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: arch.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.
Lists it belongs to
Tier: everyday. The tiers come from the English Speller Database and rank by list size, not by how often a word is used — see where the words come from.